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| Full name | Bert Oosterbosch | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1957-07-30)30 July 1957 Eindhoven, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 18 August 1989(1989-08-18) (aged 32) Lekkerkerk,Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time triallist | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1979–1981 | TI–Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | DAF Trucks | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | TI–Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Panasonic | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Panasonic-Isostar | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | TVM-Van Schilt | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||||||||
| World Champion professional individual pursuit 6 Tour de France stages Ronde van Nederland | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Bert Oosterbosch (30 July 1957 – 18 August 1989) was a Dutchracing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successfultrack androad racer.
In 1978, he won the World amateurteam time trial championship (withJan van Houwelingen,Bart van Est andGuus Bierings). A year later, he turned professional for theTI–Raleighteam ofPeter Post. That year he won the World Professionalindividual pursuit title beatingFrancesco Moser in the final. He was also three times Dutch pursuit champion.
As a professional Oosterbosch was especially successful intime trials; he won 14 stage race prologues, including three in theTour de France. He won three other stages of the Tour: his victory inBordeaux in 1983 was the one hundredth Dutch stage win in the Tour.
Oosterbosch also won stages in theVuelta a España and theTour de Suisse. In 1982 he won theRonde van Nederland.
Oosterbosch suffered poor health on occasions, twice contracting meningitis. In 1988 he was hit by severe knee trouble and had to end his professional career. He returned as an amateur and on 13 August 1989 he won a race. Five days later he died, aged thirty-two years old, after an acute cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery Our Lady of Lourdes in Eindhoven. His tombstone depicts cycle racing.
Bert Oosterbosch was married to Marian Bik. The couple had two daughters: Nathalie and Joyce.
It has been suggested that Oosterbosch's early death was caused by EPO use,[1] but this is disputed.[2]
Willy Voet, the disgraced former soigneur, talks about Oosterbosch riding the 1982Grand Prix des Nations. Oosterbosch came in 18th at more than two and a half minutes behind the winnerBernard Hinault, even though he was expected to do well. Voet said "Oosterbosch was flat from the start due to theSynacthen he had taken. The drugs initially blocked his ability to work hard. An hour after the injection it started working as planned and his tempo increased."[3] In fact, Oosterbosch came third in the 1982 event. Voet may be referring to the 1979 or 1984 runnings which Hinault also won.[4]
